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Howard Hughes: Man
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At this point in his disintegrating fortunes, Howard Hughes phoned Drew from one of his West Coast redoubts. He had long considered Pearson to be journalism's leading molder of public opinion and the man most knowledgeable about the Byzantine twists of conspiratorial Washington. And since Drew's animus against Hughes's tormentors was clear, there was a mutuality of interest present that encouraged him to seek Drew's help and advice.
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The deal set off a protracted legal battle between Hughes and his nemesis, the IRS, which Hughes ultimately won. When he died in 1976, his estate went to cousins and other heirs, although many had expected it to go to the Institute. HHMI
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In 1972, Hughes was approached by the CIA to help secretly recover Soviet submarine K-129 which had sunk near Hawaii four years earlier. He agreed. Thus the Glomar Explorer, a special-purpose salvage vessel, was born. Hughes' involvement provided the CIA with a plausible cover story, having to do with civilian marine research at extreme depths and the mining of undersea manganese nodules. In the summer of 1974, Glomar Explorer attempted to raise the Soviet vessel.
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In dem 1988 von Francis Ford Coppola gedrehten Film Tucker , Originalversion Tucker:The Man and his dream wird Howard Hughes von Dean Stockwell gespielt. In einer Szene wird, während Dean Stockwell mit Jeff Bridges spricht, im Hintergrund auch Spruce Goose Hughes H-4 gezeigt.
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Hughes emerges not as a romantic hero, but rather as a manipulative, cruel intellect suffering from megalomania. Hughes, it seems, recognized no one but himself. He worked ghastly hours, sometimes forty or more at a time, only to collapse and spend days recovering. These manic tendencies explain much of his success.
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Dean Stockwell plays Howard Hughes in the Francis Ford Coppola's biopic of automaker Preston Tucker, Tucker: A Man And His Dream. The film introduces Hughes as a potential investor of Tucker's automobile line, although such claims are unsubstantiated.
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